So Blue its Black, by Muamin Collective

So Blue its Black

by Muamin Collective

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1.	Intro 00:37
2.	Midwest Bank 03:12	lyrics
it's elemental, isotope variant never asconshed with the judas Iscariot 30 pieces. Money greases palms Funny, we the song and we ain't seen none of it Dirty Job, they can't clean none of it Lay offs, Day offs spray from the block stray off Sraight chaos, way off kilter white noise. Bypass, high pass filter Fu*%! autotune but we got that autoflow bills without the automo so we called an audible left flank slant from the west bank man midwest yes straight from chest plate and. . . (Hook) It's so gut, so nuts, so what?! (uh) So chewed, so true, so MU! So we, sew seed, so trust that Cleve indeed say WHAT!! Zion (v.2) you intune to aLiVer sound cut and groom and my bride got a flyer gown sippin yac and cider rounds swagger Vance Swagger up bag her up she's a biter had to try her down gag her up just to pipe it down we multiplying now while they left to find a towel wettin from the inside and out in the new title town bubble like a deep fryer now number one like Micaiah count (Hook) It's so gut, so nuts, so what?! (uh) So chewed, so true, so MU! So we, sew seed, so trust that Cleve indeed say WHAT!!
3.	What's the Use? feat. Holy 02:33	lyrics	buy track
(Zion) Hip-hop's Hazardous. Skip that. Strip that scandalous ______ got her tits out, tricked out fabulous . . . Glitz feel this ______ in her cavernous space is the place chase carriages. . . Wait. . . haste make waste play averages ass like that tip balances great lake taste make ravenous . . . skate roll up, cold cut MC's, fold up sandwiches total up damages rest left for the scavengers in jest mess left for the managers vanish 'em rest . . .less caught by the cameras flic that, flip that cut rate brandishers love for the amorous luck for the gambler's fate (hook) More laquer for the slackers smack for the hacker warbucks for the cluckers aaawww shucks laces for the tongue tuckers death for these dumb fuckers bum luck
4.	Mo Meta Blues 03:11	lyrics	buy track
(zion v.1) My apologies god forgive this progeny of miscogeny black eyed peas and collard greens slash prodigy of thrift shop eceonomy hip-hop street light photography John Brown staright to the armory heat that 'll carterize an artery audilbly vibration is a quantum leap a trail of tears follow me gathering gords for the hollowing more masks than haolloween or Dunbar and we back like lumbar or hand made clay pottery the artistry is infinite and oughta be they hardly, we heartily like my love for daughter be (hook) So Meta ever so clever act like he know better but he no better So meta, ever so clever act like we know better, but we no better So meta, ever so clever act like they know better, but they no better So meta, ever so clever act like ya know better. . . Zion (v.2) I got so much to say can't get it out of my mouth it's a apart of me now like Dixie's a part of the the south a spot on the avenue longitude, latitude nappyhead aziatic eyes, thick thighs, bad attitude real talk, no platitude what is beauty? envy lies about her designer over count(h)er imitation, we see limitation in the powder rinse it off in shower call me in an hour. now disrespect, no disputing U Power went from so single solo feeling so slow replay slomo toes tingle baby girl gettin money, broke niggas acting funny insecure crash test dummies I'm looking to the future as you move above me stunning the seen so lovely (hook) So Meta ever so clever act like he know better but he no better So meta, ever so clever act like she know better, but she no better So meta, ever so clever act like they know better, but we know better So meta, ever so clever act like ya know better. . .
5.	Inna City 03:18	lyrics	buy track
(hook) In a city where the sun shine for 3 months a year most nights are like re-runs of cheers my man play it back say it's music to his hear been a few years makin music for our peers In a city where the sun shine for 3 months a years most nights are like re-runs of cheers my girl play it back say its soothing to her fears sometimes play it back say its movin her to tears (zion v.1) I been savin all my scraps of paper and raps on the backs of bubble gum wrappers and napkins wrapped in meaning my pen leaning divine intervening a past bleeding into a future California Dreaming My wishing well ripple and shine my daughter tossing in pennies nickels and dimes a symbol of a simpler time while my mind scheme a design to cure this fever of mine its just a medium, we breakin the tedium gas at a premium, me walkin the median evening air breathing in, equilibrium evening closing my eyes seein the jet plane we leavin in (Hook) (zion v.2) It was a beautiful day, ugly part of town time stands still, merry go round jerseys on the field, siblings on the playground everybody scatter when the gunshots sound dichotomy of what life ought to be and what the psychotic see through his eye sockets world's most brolic myth and the phantasy folly and fallacy fat chances, gland dancers bystanders, disinterested glances, feminist, criminal stances so stagnant entering trances rolling stone romances burn like Lancers I just ask the questions, still waiting for the answers It's overcast, no sunny D just that purple stuff passed in front of me
6.	Wind 01:31	lyrics	buy track
in this comedy of errors I err on the side of comedy, reflect on deuteronomy, pray serenity, pen economy
7.	Lay Hands 02:40	lyrics	buy track
mordern science is designed to decipher the ancient the secrets are sacred the beauty and the balance if you simple and plain it particles and parables puzzles and mazes populate the planet through its cycles and phases purges and rages due to pillaging natures lay men explain it to prayers and praises the bible the quraan and the faith in their pages people are patients, doctors are faceless masks on their faces the game is in error, we mirror the baseness cure for the racist? quest for the ages stock boy to block boy, work for the wages entropy and empathy, supple amazing couplets and phrasing pattern and pacing theism, we-ism, great migration invoke kinfolk, embibe libation (Hook) Look into her eyes see visions of horizons pyramids rise from fine grains of sands the land meets the skies and we devise a plan to save man from his own hand See no man made God made man but man made God in his own image with his own limits Lay Hands! to the hurts in the body Lay Hands al my Gods and the Earths in the party Lay Hands
8.	Too Dirty feat. Jack Burton 02:11	lyrics	buy track
I'm stil amazed, hands up till the ceiling raise son shining, blindin, you can feel the rays fuel for the fire, flame for the lames art from the start been the game for the dames you ain't Rick James get ya feet off my couch flies on your lip bullshit out ya mouth I'm denying the child your mother should've aborted ya style but its over wit now sheddin tears in your beer ain't the only one been through it hard knocks on the rocks muamin chin music alive 'll sample that, put a synth to it I ain't a gimp, but I walk with a limp to it all about getting paper, then putting pen to it makin music, then sellin influence see I ain't got to get all into it I can leave it right there dog you can intuit
9.	Capital Gains 02:39	lyrics	buy track
He went from grey poupon to coupon clippin his hedge fund slippin and fallin "Honey I shrunk the nest egg!" this is your life on credit his wife callin the medic they brakin his legs, he ain't have it to bet it they over leveraged the future when we foretold of foreclosure back in '04 he was a big bill folder now Fannie Mae is foldling the stimulus package make me wanna fill her depression now we back to the rations Ray and nephew pass a glass of molasses this good got me higher than the price of the gas is. Why my grandpops kept the cash in the mattress big payback for these corperatist bastards held up in a palace of malice and avarice hands callused from holdin the chalice and alice in chains so strange the change of the status of thangs who lose when the capital gains? (Hook) hands callused from holdin alice in chains Who lose when the capital gains? so strange the change of the status of thangs Who lose when the capital gains? (V.2) End are a means to an end living out of their means sport it, but they can't afford it type to bend like a beam through a lense sins at the seams of the trends the crease of the hems they fiends lookin slim never seen me with them aLiVe add the beat to the blend eroll a leaf of the skin facin east with a grin go ahead and split ends we got that afro sheen and the dream never ends you effin with the advance never had a chance need to lean on a friend retro fit like the jean of your kin in the end what it means your just sheets to the wind
10.	Figure 8 02:50	lyrics	buy track
they say . . . we finish last only if not finished off first the cycle of daughters seeking what was lost first mothers clinging to that wich hasn't left worse, indecision, education or a rap verse love is drawn and quartered reaching each and every night longing to possess what is seen in plain sight blind angles circle halos in the skylight figure 8's till a nigga get his mind right
11.	Can't Pass Up feat. Jack Burton 03:25		buy track
12.	FTF (Fare Trade Future) 03:03		buy track
13.	J one 4theHomie 01:30	info	buy track

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With their fourth studio album, SO BLUE ITS BLACK, the two have matured and their sound has grown as their lives have changed. Diverse samples, with intricate chops, and poetic density have always been a signature, but the musicality is much richer with aLive delving into music theory and the narratives penned by Zion reflecting a mellowed militancy of a culture concerned for its children. Writing instructor and Soccer coach in Cleveland’s Slavic village by day and MC at night and a newly minted father, art imitates life and vice versa.

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released March 24, 2014

Lyrics - Zion
Production - aLiVE

cover art by James Quarles
recorded at Wynn Studios
mastering by Wax Monkey Productions

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